The Portal Project

Ernest, SKM, Valone TJ, Brown JH.  2009.  Long-term monitoring and experimental manipulation of a Chihuahuan Desert ecosystem near Portal, Arizona, USA. Ecology. 90:1708.

Morlon, H, White EP, Etienne R, Green JL, Ostling A, Alonso D, Enquist BJ, He F, Hurlbert AH, Magurran AE et al..  2009.  Taking species abundance distributions beyond individuals. Ecology Letters. 12:488-501. Download: morlon_h_2009_e12_488.pdf (536.38 KB)

Lima, M, Stenseth NC, Ernest SKM, Brown JH, Belgrano A.  2008.  Chihuahuan Desert kangaroo rats:non-linear effects of intra-population processes, interspecific competition, and summer rainfall. Ecology. 89:2594-2603.

Valone, TJ, Barber NA.  2008.  An empirical evaluation of the insurance hypothesis in diversity-stability models. Ecology. 89:522-531.

Thibault, KM, Brown JH.  2008.  Impact of an extreme climatic event on community assembly. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA. 105:3410-3415.

Ernest, SKM, Brown JH, Thibault KM, White EP, Goheen JR.  2008.  Zero-sum, the niche, and metacommunities: long-term dynamics of community assembly. American Naturalist. 32:E257-E269. Download: ernest_skm_2008_a172_e257.pdf (543.41 KB)

Houlahan, JE, Currie DJ, Cottenie K, Cummings GS, Ernest SKM, Findlay CS, Fuhlendorf SD, Gaedke U, Legendre P, Magnuson JJ et al..  2007.  Compensatory dynamics are rare in natural communities. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, USA. 104:3273-3277.

White, EP, Gilchrist MA.  2007.  Effects of population level aggregation, autocorrelation, and interspecific association on the species-time relationship in two desert communities. Evolutionary Ecology Research. 9:1329-1347. Download: white_ep_2007_e9_1329.pdf (420.17 KB)

Castellano, MJ, Valone TJ.  2007.  Livestock, soil compaction and water infiltration rate: Evaluating a potential desertification recovery mechanism. Journal of Arid Environments. 71:97-108.

Valone, TJ, Schutzenhofer MR.  2007.  Reduced rodent biodiversity destabilizes plant populations. Ecology. 88:26-31.

White, EP.  2007.  Spatiotemporal scaling of species richness: patterns, processes and implications. Scaling Biodiversity. :325-346. Download: white_ep_2007_sb_325.pdf (549.24 KB)

McGill, BJ, Etienne R, Gray J, Alonso D, Anderson M, Benecha H, Dornelas M, Enquist BJ, He F, Hurlbert AH et al..  2007.  Species abundance distributions: moving beyond single prediction theories to integration within an ecological framework. Ecology Letters. 10:995-1015. Download: mcgill_bj_2007_e10_995.pdf (1.02 MB)

White, EP, Adler PB, Lauenroth WK, Gill RA, Greenberg D, Kaufman DM, Rassweiler A, Rusak JA, Smith MD, Steinbeck JR et al..  2006.  A comparison of the species-time relationship across ecosystems and taxonomic groups. Oikos. 112:185-195. Download: white_ep_2006_o112_185.pdf (184.65 KB)

Goheen, JR, White EP, Ernest SKM, Brown JH.  2006.  Intraguild competition regulates species richness in desert rodents: reply. Ecology. 87:2121-2125. Download: goheen_jr_2006_e87_2121.pdf (129.17 KB)

Schutzenhofer, MR, Valone TJ.  2006.  Positive and negative effects of exotic Erodium cicutarium on an arid ecosystem. Biological Conservation. 132:376-381.

Yin, ZY, Guo QF, Ren H, Peng SL.  2005.  Seasonal changes in spatial patterns of two annual plants in the Chihuahuan Desert, USA. Plant Ecology. 178(2):189-199. Abstract

Ernest, SKM.  2005.  Body size, energy use, and community structure of small mammals. Ecology. 86:1407-1413.

Adler, PB, White EP, Lauenroth WK, Kaufman DM, Rassweiler A, Rusak JA.  2005.  Evidence for a general species-time-area relationship. Ecology. 86:2032-2039. Download: adler_pb_2005_e86_2032.pdf (106.66 KB)

Valone, TJ, Kaspari M.  2005.  Interactions between granivorous and omnivorous ants in a desert grassland: results from a long-term experiment. Ecological Entomology. 30:116-121.

Goheen, JR, White EP, Ernest SKM, Brown JH.  2005.  Intra-guild compensation regulates species richness in desert rodents. Ecology. 86:567-573. Download: goheen_jr_2005_e86_567.pdf (501.81 KB)

Thibault, KM, White EP, Ernest SKM.  2004.  Temporal dynamics in the structure and composition of a desert rodent community. Ecology. 85:2649-2655. Download: thibault_km_2004_e85_2649.pdf (602.09 KB)

White, EP, Ernest SKM, Thibault KM.  2004.  Tradeoffs in community properties through time in a desert rodent community. American Naturalist. 164:670-676. Download: white_ep_2004_a164_670.pdf (128.31 KB)

Valone, TJ.  2003.  Examination of interaction effects of multiple disturbances on an arid plant community. Southwestern Naturalist. 48:481-490.

Valone, TJ, Hoffman CD.  2003.  A mechanistic examiniation of diversity-stability relationships in annual plant communities. Oikos. 103:519-527.

Valone, TJ, Hoffman CD.  2003.  Population stability is higher in more diverse annual plant communities. Ecology Letters. 6(2):90-95. Abstract